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In this attorney disciplinary matter, the Court adopts the Hearing Panel's recommendation and sanctions the attorney to a one-year definite suspension, retroactive to the date of the interim suspension, with conditions and payment of costs.

Thrift appeals his guilty plea and sentence, arguing his plea was conditional and that there should be another procedure in place to handle appeals from guilty pleas. We affirm his guilty plea and sentence and point out to the Bar that there is a new procedure in place for handling appeals of guilty pleas.

Appellant appeals the circuit court's order denying him uninsured motorist proceeds pursuant to a compensation section in the Tort Claims Act. We affirm the circuit court's finding that Appellant had to meet the definition of "uninsured" to recover under the section.

This is a direct appeal from a grant of partial summary judgment to the City of North Charleston. The issue on appeal is whether the Town of Summerville complied with a statute which requires the publication of notice not less than thirty days prior to acting on a petition to annex real property. Finding that notice did not occur at least thirty days prior to acting on the petition to annex, the Court affirmed.

A jury found Young guilty of kidnapping and assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature as a lesser included offense of criminal sexual conduct stemming from a drug transaction with a female victim. Young appealed on the grounds that the trial court improperly admitted evidence of prior convictions for criminal sexual conduct and criminal domestic violence. The court of appeals affirmed Young’s conviction and the Court granted certiorari. The Court affirms the decision of the court of appeals as modified.

This criminal case involves the issue of whether the trial court erred by quashing the indictment for possession of a handgun while under the age of 21 on the ground that the statute making such possession illegal is unconstitutional.